There is a moment whenever Jon Favreau's character yells at a food critic talking about he has no dignity for reviewing the food that Favreau cooks,and how hard he,and his team works at making it. If the food were this movie I would have a simple response. "I'm sorry it's colorful, and there are moments that I liked,but it just never popped." Chef has Jon Favreau playing Carl Casper a chef who works in a prestigious restaurant. When a food critic insults him in a review he is very angered,and lashes out losing his job,and having to build up his life again. Sounds fun right. Well not so much.This is a sad film for me. I like the work of Jon Favreau mainly the Iron Man films, and I always felt that in his performances as well as direction that he always had something fun to do or say. The trailer for this film got me into the idea of thinking "hey this looks fun." It was funny, quirky, and it seemed full of heart, but that was the trailer. After having watched the film I find the sad fact that it is just boring. I did say that the film "had it's moments though",and it does. There's a funny running gag about just how unaware Carl is about social media that is funny, but after a while it becomes a slightly amusing distraction. There's a side character who is played by John Leguizamo brings some heart to the film. Also the Latin inspired style of the entire thing somewhat drew my attention. There's also a kid who has good chemistry, but he isn't given anything that isn't trite to do. See Carl when he loses his job is fired he attempts to connect with his kid,and succeeds in getting a food truck,and running it with his son. This again should be fun, but it comes off trite. "The kid wants to connect with the dad,and the dad has trouble connecting" stuff can be done well it really can. Here it's just done with the same type of thing over,and over, and it just get's boring. The film is trying to make you feel good,but it doesn't. There are some subtle creative touches to the film,and they are nice,but they are just distractions. Actually you know what. Most of what is captured on the camera seems to be a distraction. It works sometimes though. This film puts food being cooked up in your face constantly,and I really wanted to eat some of it. There's a particularly appetizing scene where he makes a grilled cheese,and there's butter,and melting stuff. It looks good, but you can't just make a movie from this. The whole thing seems diluted because it would rather show you the food than the characters. I mean it's good to show something that your viewers like,and I have nothing against watching delicious food being cooked,but it's all a cover for the fact that the story,and screenplay themselves are not that interesting. The ending of the film is also sappy, and just doesn't come off well. While I found some of it funny,and the fact that watching good food get cooked is always entertaining I found Chef ultimately boring,and uninteresting. I give Chef a 6 out of 10 REMEMBER TO COMMENT ON THE FILMS AND REVIEWS. I'D LOVE TO HEAR WHAT YOU THOUGHT.
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